[Verse 1]
             
Starry, starry

    
  night, 

paint your pal

ette       

Blue and grey,

 
            
Look out on a 

        
summer's day, 
             
with eyes that

            
 know the dark

             
ness in my sou

l
             
Shadows on the

   
 hills, 
             
Sketch the tre

           
es and the daf

fodills
            
Catch the bree

             
ze and the win

         
ter chills, in

 
            
colors on the 

             
snowy linen la

 
nd           


[Chorus]
             
Now I under st

     
and 
            
what you tried

         
 to say to me
            
and how you su

              
ffered for you

       
r sanity
            
How you tried 

             
to set them fr


ee, 
            
they would not

              
 listen, they 

            
did not know h

   
ow,
             
Perhaps they'l

         
l listen now


[Verse 2]
             
Starry, starry

                    
  night, 

flaming flower

s that     
            
Brightly blaze

            
, swirling clo

       
uds in violet 

haze
             
Reflecting Vin

              
cent’s eyes of

       
 China Blue
             
Colors changin

    
g hue, 
             
Morning fields

    
 of amber grai

n
            
Weathered face

         
s lined in pai

n 
             
Are soothed be

            
neath the arti

           
sts loving han

d


[Chorus]
             
And now I unde

      
rstand 
             
what you tried

      
 to say to me
            
how you suffer

            
ed for your sa

    
nity
            
How you tried 

            
to set them fr

       
ee, 
            
they would not

              
 listen, they 

            
did not know h

     
ow,
            
Perhaps they'l

         
l listen now


[Bridge]
             
For they could

             
 not love you,
            
but still your

            
 love was true
          
And when no ho

pe was left in

 sight 
        
On that starry

, starry night

, you
             
took your life

             
 as lovers oft

   
en do
            
But I could ha

              
ve told you, V

        
incent, this w

orld was 
             
Never meant fo

            
r one as beaut

            
iful as you


[Verse 3]
             
Starry, starry

          
  night, 
             
portraits hung

    
 in empty hall

s
            
framless heads

    
 on nameless w

alls
             
with eyes that

            
 watch the wor

             
ld and can’t f

orget

Like the stran

gers that you’

ve met
             
The ragged men

    
 in ragged clo

thes 
            
A silver thorn

    
, a bloody ros

e, lie
             
Crushed and br

            
oken on the vi

     
rgin snow

             
And now I thin

        
k I know,  
            
what you tried

       
 to say to me,

  
            
how you suffer

            
ed for your sa

      
nity
            
How you tried 

            
to set them fr

ee, 
            
They would not

              
 listen, they’

            
re not listeni

          
ng still,
             
Perhaps the ne

   
ver....will